7/8/2023 0 Comments Wild life by keena roberts![]() ![]() ![]() She could wield a spear as easily as a pencil, and it wasn't unusual to be chased by lions or elephants on any given day. In Africa, she slept in a tent, cooked over a campfire, and lived each day alongside the baboon colony her parents were studying. Keena Roberts split her adolescence between the wilds of an island camp in Botswana and the even more treacherous halls of an elite Philadelphia private school. ![]() By turns heartbreaking and hilarious, this memoir is ultimately the story of a daring but sensitive young girl desperately trying to figure out if there's any place where she truly fits in.īook Synopsis Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight meets Mean Girls in this funny, insightful fish-out-of-water memoir about a young girl coming of age half in a "baboon camp" in Botswana, half in a ritzy Philadelphia suburb. About the Book In the author's funny, tender memoir, Africa bleeds into America and vice versa, each culture amplifying the other. ![]()
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